Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Spontaneous single-nucleotide substitutions and microsatellite mutations have distinct distributions of fitness effects
Y. Plavskin, M. S. de Biase, N. Ziv…·M. L. Siegal
This study measures the fitness effects of spontaneous single-nucleotide substitutions and microsatellite mutations in yeast, finding they have distinct distributions of mutational effects on growth rate.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002698